Personal Injury and Product Liability Claims Experience
Mediated hundreds of product liability and personal injury claims nationwide in over 15 years.
Personal Injury: Wrongful Death & Survivor Claims; Auto Accidents; Serious Injury; Medical Malpractice; Premises Liability; and Intentional & other Torts.
Product Liability: Agricultural, Construction, Industrial, Manufacturing Machinery & Equipment; Elevators; Escalators; Consumer Products; Medical Devices; and Vehicles (Auto, Trucks and Boats).
Personal Injury and Product Liability Case Examples
Bad faith claim against carrier for delay in processing UIM claims. (
Driver of vehicle injured when commercial truck on PA Turnpike, traveling in opposite direction, lost its load. The fallen load caused a multiple vehicle accident on the other side of road. (
Claim alleged defects in design of pulley involving young woman falling to her death. (Pennsylvania, February 2007)
Premise liability against establishment for failure to remove dangerous condition. Resulted in a door falling on a middle-aged man who suffered neck and shoulder injuries. (Pennsylvania, February 2007)
Claim involving death of rider arising from an accident on the vehicle alleging defective design. (Pennsylvania, January 2007)
Claim against retailer for broken leg and long-term pain of 4-year-old child. Child was injured while riding in shopping cart when cart overturned on defective parking lot surface. (Pennsylvania, September 2006)
Claim by a 51-year-old female that shelved items at a retailer fell on her and caused back and pain injuries. (Pennsylvania, September 2006)
Premise liability against retailer for failure to supervise and remove dangerous condition. Resulted in middle-aged man tripping over merchandise and suffering knee and shoulder injuries. (Pennsylvania, September 2006)
Premise liability against retailer for failure to supervise and remove dangerous condition. Resulted in middle-aged woman falling on debris and suffering leg, shoulder, neck and spine injuries. (Pennsylvania, September 2006)
Premise liability against company for failure to supervise and remove dangerous condition. Resulted in middle-aged man slipping on ice and suffering injuries. (Pennsylvania, October 2006)
Claim by elderly women for injuries to eye and foot sustained as a passanger in motor vehicle accident requiring a six week hospitalization. Defendants were a delivery truck and her husband as driver of her own vehicle. (Centre, PA 2006)
Claim against Municipality alleging snow plow failed to provide sufficient room to pass causing accident and permanent disability of man. (Western PA 2006)
Allegation of sexual molestation involving disabled man. (2005)
Claim for adverse side-effects of drug prescribed off-label. (2005)
Claim involving paraplegic child alleging defects in helmet. (New York City, 2000)
Claim involving a close head injury arising from an alleged defective seatbelt (Up-State New York, 2000)
Claim involving close head injury arising from an accident with farm vehicle on highway. (Greenville, South Carolina, 2000)
Claim involving death of five year old child crushed by tractor tire wheel on farm. (Maryland, 2000)
Claim involving wrongful death of elderly diabetic patient in hospital. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2000)
Claim against hospital for loss of big toe when wheelchair banged into door. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2000)
Claim for loss of eye for highschool cheerleader from egg fight with football players. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2000)
Claim involving TMJ and heart problems following biting plastic in an ice cream cone. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2000)
Claim involving closed head and other permanent injuries to high school principal in head-on collision. (New York, 2000)
Claim involving paraplegic alleging medical product defect (New York, 1999)
Claim involving death from officiation due to wire trapping a man against a post hole digger in front of his wife and child (Connecticut, 1999)
Claim involving a double amputee at the knee caught in power take-off drive of tractor (New York, 1999)
Claim for injury from defective tire and wheel mount (Pittsburgh, 1999)
Claim for severe closed head injury from mismatched tire and wheel rim (Texas, 1998)
Claim for double wrongful death for faulty valves in food processing plant (Pittsburgh, 1998)
Claim for wrongful death from burns alleged defective gas cap on tractor (Pittsburgh, 1998)
Claim for plaintiff who lost fingers in riding lawnmower (Pittsburgh, 1998)
Claim involving a permanent closed-head injury resulting from defendant corporation's truck. (Pittsburgh, 1997)
Claims involving defects in the braking system of a lawn tractor against manufacturer. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1997)
Claims of slip and fall from machinery resulting from leaking fluid from cleaning out a waste drawer. (Rochester, New York, 1997)
Claim of woman scalded by hot coffee from a coffee-maker. (Pittsburgh, 1997)
Claims of employee who lost use of hands in conveyor belt of tire-shredding machine.(Pittsburgh, 1997)
Claim involving teenager who suffered the loss of use of foot due to being caught in an escalator. (Pittsburgh, 1997)
Claim of 72 year old female who slipped on an entrance rug on a newly polished floor.(Pittsburgh, 1996)
Claim of man shot in head with nail gun. (Pittsburgh, 1996)
Claim involving the loss of fingers in forklift accident. (Vermont, 1995)
Claim of double amputee due to cornpicker. (Missouri, 1995)
Claims involving employee who lost hand caught between railroad cars.(Ohio, 1995)
Claim involving malfunctioning bulldozer. (Alaska, 1994)
Claim of paraplegic over defective seatbelt (South Carolina, 1994)
Claims involving the death by massive head trauma as the result of a collision with a garbage truck; failure to have an underside guard on the back of the truck. (Charleston, South Carolina, 1993)
Claims involving a severe head injury while performing job duties as a truck delivery man. (South Carolina, 1993)
Claims involving an elderly woman's broken hip as the result of a fall while exiting an elevator that had failed to stop on an even level with the floor. (Pittsburgh, 1990)
Claims involving roll-over of agricultural equipment. (Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia)
Claims involving severe injury to children from riding lawn mowers. (Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, PA, West Virginia)
